So do we, and I think it makes a tremendous difference. With the new CA budget, our district is thinking of ending class size reduction in K and 3rd. Our K teachers are divided about doing all day kinder with 30 students. They have to sign a waiver to have all day kinder and all teachers must agree. We'll see what happens... They are thinking maybe extended day (15 come early for 1 hour, then all 30, then the other 15 stay an hour) Jan Each day comes bearing it¹s own gifts, untie the ribbons. -Ruth Ann Schabacker
On 2/21/09 8:15 AM, "ljackson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes > > > > Lori Jackson > District Literacy Coach and Mentor > Todd County School District > Box 87 > Mission SD 5755 > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Felicia Barra <[email protected]> > To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' > <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:48 AM > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehensionofquestions-washeartbreak/response > to R... > >> Lori, >> >> Just curious, do you have full day kindergarten? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ljackson >> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:33 AM >> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehension of >> questions-washeartbreak/response to R... >> >> We have seen some amazing results this year in kindergarten classrooms using >> No More Letter of The Week as a means of introducing and building >> letter-sound associations in combination with a guided writing approach that >> emphasizes shared composition and teacher modeling of invented spelling >> (that becomes more sophisticated across the year). I have been monitoring >> the data very closely and though this is simply comparison of existing >> measures, what we see is compelling. In our two classrooms where teachers >> have fully implemented, in collaboration here are some of our celebrations: >> The highest levels of letter recognition AND sound association; more than >> 75% of each classroom meeting mid-year benchmarks for proficiency in >> reading; in one classroom, all but one child scored 3 or 4 on a four point >> rubric for writing in use across the district (where, in the past, kinders >> rarely score higher than 1)--the other classroom has no 1's and about one >> third scoring two with the rest scoring >> 3's (both teachers were so in awe of their own results that they asked that >> the pieces be blind-scored by myself and two other teachers and the results >> held up); Gentry's Monster test results showed all that 22 of 23 and 19 of >> 25 children were advanced spellers, performing at end of kindergarten to mid >> first grade when scored in early January. Those who know me know the >> challenges of reaching and teaching children in our setting and this has >> been such an exciting year. I have to say that this, in combination with >> strategy work, is the most promising news we have had for our early readers >> in years. And, joyfully, these rooms are still the picture of what I would >> hope early childhood should be--playful, age-appropriate with a sense of >> playing at learning rather the kinds of environments that feel as though we >> are stripping children of childhood. >> >> >> >> Lori Jackson >> District Literacy Coach and Mentor >> Todd County School District >> Box 87 >> Mission SD 5755 >> >> ----- Original message ----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:13 AM >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehension of >> questions-washeartbreak/response to R... >> >>> >>> >>> In a message dated 2/20/2009 7:44:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>> what does the independent research say about Direct Instruction programs >>> >>> Elisa, >>> I did some research on this exact question in my dissertation. I could >> write >>> about it for hours (actually I did!), >>> but what I found in a very limited nutshell, was that in kindergarten >>> intervention students, DI works teaching children to decode. It did not >> make a >>> difference in comprehension. In first grade intervention students, writing >> >>> workshop worked just as well as DI in teaching children to decode and that >> the >>> children also became better writers! >>> >>> I did a lot of reading of the research Amy cited, Project Follow Through, >> >>> and it had some major flaws. >>> DI people rely heavily on Follow Through research, which is now over 40 >>> years old. >>> >>> Nancy >>> >>> >>> **************Need a job? 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